Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program for people who want to participate," concurred an athletic department official. "Those who prefer not to, have that right...
...fact, even the word aborigine has overtones of European paternalism; many of Australia's dark people prefer their own traditional term, "Koori...
...harsh work. For a cottage with two or three bedrooms, four or five tons of reed or straw are required, and because thatchers prefer to work alone, the job often will take four to five weeks, all out-of-doors labor in England's cold and windy weather. Thatchers pick and choose their jobs: most prefer to work only in their home area and simply turn down the increasingly frantic demands that they take on jobs elsewhere. There are only about 400 master thatchers left, but their ranks are being swelled by young men, including several college dropouts...
...harsh work. For a cottage with two or three bedrooms, four or five tons of reed or straw are required, and because thatchers prefer to work alone, the job often will take four to five weeks, all out-of-doors labor in England's cold and windy weather. Thatchers pick and choose their jobs: most prefer to work only in their home area and simply turn down the increasingly frantic demands that they take on jobs elsewhere. There are only about 400 master thatchers left, but their ranks are being swelled by young men, including several college dropouts...
Quadraphonics have been available on tape since 1969. But for home hi-fi sets, the mass consumer market has continued to prefer stereo disks to tape by sales ratios of more than 5 to 1. Mindful of that fact, Columbia last November came out with the first four-channel record, calling it SQ (for Stereo-Quadraphonic). The new SQs cost a dollar more than regular stereo LP records. SQ is also designed to be played on conventional stereo rigs, but when that is done, SQ shows a slight but perceptible loss in sharpness of sound. Columbia has not announced...